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ESMA warns of risks from investment firms selling unregulated products

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Martina Lindberg

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The regulator alerts investors about risks and regulatory confusion among firms that offer both regulated and unregulated items.

A concern over investment firms that are over offering products and services that are not regulated “gives rise to both investor protection and prudential risks”, the ESMA recently said in a statement.

The EU’s financial markets and securities regulator has addressed the concerns to investment firms that offer unregulated products

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